Yeah. Bad news for the MB:
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"The [MB] still works, but when we looked at the data... we concluded that the source strength is so low that we probably wouldn't have accumulated a useful spectrum by the time we were ready to move the rover," Steve Squyres... said
A plan for the LF wheel:
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the engineers are planning on having the rover wiggle her left front wheel, which should relax any further stress on that wheel. "Separately, we are now imaging at least twice a day to detect further motion and to try to bound when it happens to it can be correlated to other activities (if such a correlation exists)," said Nelson
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And some ideas for when driving resumes:
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Arvidson: "We need to go back to the Bench, where we saw the gypsum vein Homestake and find a bigger one that we can grind into, remove any coating, and redo the measurements." "Once we start moving, we'll pop out to the Bench either on the east side or the west side"
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There is also talk of Opportunity roving up to Morris Hill... "It's pretty steep, so we still have to evaluate whether we can actually drive onto it, or just look at it from a safe distance," [Squyres] said.
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"We'll move when we're ready to move," said Squyres. "June is a reasonable guess, but that could change depending on tau, dust factor, etc. General plan is to head south, performing more investigations on Cape York and then heading toward Cape Tribulation."
